Best colors for pageant gowns

White is the hands-down best color for pageant evening gowns, but other colors can win as well. Here is how pageant gown colors rate…

The pageant evening gown competition is your opportunity to shine and convey to judges that you should be their queen. But what is the best color to wear in the evening gown competition? And what colors have pageant winners worn most successfully? Are there certain “winning pageant evening gown colors”? Yes, certain colors do perform better in pageants. The following is a listing of recent major pageant titleholders and the evening gown colors they wore to win their coveted crowns. *

*Some winners are listed twice: Miss USAs who changed gowns for the Miss Universe Pageant, and Miss Americas who wore different gowns for the preliminary and final evening gown competitions.

Due to their elegance (and, perhaps their subconscious association with both nudity and gold?), skin-tone/gold gowns can be absolutely breathtaking in the evening gown competition! Some of our favorite examples are:

*Some winners are listed twice: Miss USAs who changed gowns for the Miss Universe Pageant, and Miss Americas who wore different gowns for the preliminary and final evening gown competitions.

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